Oh, my goodness the drop down menu provides so many choices! Powerful search potential.
I just finished a young adult novel titled Diamond Ruby by Joseph E. Wallace and found that there were 529 copies in libraries worldwide, the top library was Brookings Public followed by Watertown, then libraries in Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming. The call number was listed as: Class Descriptors: LC:PZ7.W15675; Dewey: (Fic)
Joseph E. Wallace has written many non-fiction books related to baseball. Thirty-seven books by him are listed, 5 sound records and 3 internet items. I checked on the internet items and found a link to NetLibrary, however the book was not available to download.
Searching middle school libraries, in education, I found 6400 WorldCat hits, 650 ERIC journal articles and 30 journals in ECO. I explored the ERIC journals and clicked on the Dec. 2010 article from School Library Monthly. ERIC provided an abstract of the article, and also a link to the publication and I was able to access the entire article. Another tool to keep us current when our budgets are getting tighter!
Log Shanty with flag, woman and seven boys Photograph from Stevens County Museum and Historical Society, Morris, MN. Identified as possibly a school in South Dakota. And I am complaining about a long winter!
Hi, Kriscat, yes, that picture is mighty bleak! Thanks for your comments. Glad you found good stuff here. Definitely powerful search potential. :)
ReplyDeleteI agree, WorldCat is a great resource. I wasn't as thorough in searching through all the information about the books though, so I might have to go back through the lesson and look at the material again.
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